Dr.-Ing. Mahsa Moghadas
Professur Städtebau und Bodenordnung
Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformation
Nußallee 1
53115 Bonn
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Function
Expertise
Resilient Smart Cities
Sustainable Urban Development
Climate Change Adaptation
Crowdsourcing and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)
Disaster Risk Assessment
Urban Analytics
Project
Feb 2021 – Jan 2025 Inclusive and Integrated Multi-Hazard Risk Management and Engagement of Volunteers to INCREASE Societal Resilience in Times of Changing Climates, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
July 2018 – Dec 2018 INCOR - Basic Infrastructures and Services for Enhancing Inclusive Community Disaster Resilience funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Jul 2017- Feb 2023 Ph.D. Thesis - Urban Flood Resilience: From Benchmarking Resilience to Accelerating Transformation Using Crowdsourcing Data
Lecture
Module “Urban Development” (lecture and seminar) in the Master's Program of Geodetic Engineering
Module “Spatial Decision Support System” (lecture and seminar) in the Master's Program of Geodetic Engineering
Module “Geoinformation and Spatial Development (Project)” in the Master's Program of Geodetic Engineering, “Geoinformation and Spatial Development”
Education
PhD Engineering Urban Resilience and sustainable development, University of Bonn, Germany, 2023.
MSc. Environmental Management, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany, 2017.
BEng. Urban and Regional Planning, University of Tehran, Iran, 2009.
Publication
Moghadas, M., Fekete, A., Rajabifard, A., Koetter. T. (2023). The wisdom of crowds for improved disaster resilience: a near-real-time analysis of crowdsourced social media data on the 2021 flood in Germany. Geojournal (Accepted).
Moghadas, M., Rajabifard, A., Fekete, A., Kötter. T. (2022). A Framework for Scaling Urban Transformative Resilience through Utilizing Volunteered Geographic Information. International Journal of Geo-Information, 11(2):114. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11020114
Asadzadeh, A., Kötter, T., Fekete, A., Moghadas, M., Alizadeh, M., Zebardast, E., Weiss, D., Basirat, M., Hutter, G. (2022). Urbanization, migration, and the challenges of resilience thinking: Insights from two contrasting planning systems in Germany and Iran. Cities, 125(June), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103642
Fekete. A., Asadzadeh. A., Ghafory-Ashtiany, M., Amini-Hosseini. K., Hetkäamper, C., Moghadas, M., Ostadtaghizadeh, A., Kötter, T. (2020) Pathways for advancing integrative disaster risk and resilience management in Iran: Needs, challenges and opportunities, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 49,101635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101635
Moghadas, M., Asadzadeh, A., Vafeidis A., Fekete, A., Kötter, T. (2019). A multi-criteria approach for assessing urban flood resilience in Tehran, Iran. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 35,101069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101069
Fekete. A., Asadzadeh. A., Moghadas, M. (2019) INCOR Basic Infrastructures and Services for Enhancing Inclusive Community Disaster Resilience in Iran. Final technical report of the project definition phase, Integrative Risk and Security Research, 2/2019, 64 pages.
Moghadas, M. (2019, July). The role of digital volunteerism and volunteered Geographic Information in smart resilient cities. Presentation at the AGIT 2019, The Spatial View in Salzburg, Austria.
Asadzadeh, A., Kötter, T., Birkmann, J., Weiss, W., Moghadas, M. (2017, August). Toward Understanding Community Disaster Resilience: Proposing a Comprehensive Methodology. Paper presented at the Social Progress for Resilient Regions, ERSA 57th Congress, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Moghadas, M., Fekete, A., Asadzadeh, A., Kötter, T. (2018) A theoretical framework for building the risk-resilience of basic infrastructures and services using Open Data, abstract published in 11th International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) Congress, Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience, December 10-11-12, Barcelona, Spain.
Moghadas, M., Fekete, A., Asadzadeh, A., Kötter, T. (2018) Measuring urban disaster resilience: The context of flood hazard in city of Tehran, published in EGU General Assembly, Geophysical Research AbstractsVol. 20, EGU2018-148-2, April 2018, Viena, Austria.
Asadzadeh, A., Moghadas. M., Kötter. T., Fekete. A. (2018) Bridging the gap between stakeholder requirements and technical needs in community resilience measurement, abstract published in 11th International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) Congress, Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience, December 10-11-12, Barcelona, Spain.
Academic Experience
Mar. 2017- Current
Research Associate, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation (IGG), Urban Planning & Land Management Group, University of Bonn, Germany.
Oct. 2019- Current
Lecturer, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation (IGG), Urban Planning & Land Management Group, University of Bonn, Germany.
Nov. 2014- Dec. 2016
Research Assistant, Institute of Geography & Future Ocean Excellence Cluster, Coastal Risk, and Sea-Level Rise Research group. Geography Institute University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
May 2007- May 2008
Research Assistant, Zista Architecture and Planning Consulting Company, Tehran, Iran.
Industry Experience
2009 –2013
Urban and Regional Planner, Design, Architecture & Environment (DAE) Consulting Company, Tehran, Iran. Worked as a member of the Center of Excellence Team, responsible for the provision of comprehensive plans, master plans, and strategic plans for small cities located in the eastern part of Iran
2008-2009
Urban Planner, Redesigning for the walkability of Tehran Grand Bazaar project, Tarhotaavon Urban Designers Consultanting Company, Tehran, Iran
Peer Review
Elsevier Reviewer Recognition for the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR)
Elsevier Reviewer Recognition for the International Journal of Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS)
International Journal of GeoJournal
International Journal of Natural Hazards
International Journal of Sustainability
Membership
Member of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Member of the European Urban Research Association (EURA)
Member of Resilience Connections Network (RCN)
Member of Graduate Institute North Rhein Westphalia, Germany in applied research, expert group “Risk-Security-Resilience”
Certificate
2021 Certificate of ‘Digital Twin in Urban Planning’ and ‘3D Land Administration’, Centre For Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration (CSDILA), University of Melbourne, Australia.
2018 Certificate of ‘Reforming Urban Resilience Implementation, Aligning Sustainability and resilience’, International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) Congress, Barcelona, Spain.
2017 Certificate of ‘International Women in German Academia’, Bonn Graduate Center, University of Bonn, Germany.
2017 Certificate of ‘Witty Reaction and Smart Retorts’, Bonn Graduate Center, University of Bonn, Germany.
2016 Certificate of ‘Advancing Disaster Risk Reduction to Enhance Sustainable Development in a Changing World’, United Nations University (UNU-EHS), Bonn, Germany.
2014 Certificate of ‘Decision Support Systems for the Governance of Coastal Ecosystems’, Research and Technology Centre Westcoast (FTZ), University of Kiel, Germany.